The Law

Justin Bieber Arrested for Second Time in One Week

After his arrest last week for allegedly drag racing and driving under the influence in Miami (which gifted us with a creepily Cyrus-ian mugshot), Bieber showed up at a Toronto police station on Wednesday to turn himself in—but for an unrelated incident, as he was responding to the charge that he had assaulted a Toronto limo driver a month ago, after the driver picked up a group of six people outside a nightclub at close to three a.m.

“While driving the group to a hotel, an altercation occurred between one of the passengers and the driver of the limousine,” the police statement said. “In the course of the altercation, a man struck the limousine driver on the back of the head several times. The driver stopped the limousine, exited the vehicle and called police.”

About a dozen Toronto police officers were needed to escort Bieber through the throngs of fans, photographers and media last night so that he could make his way into the police station (seriously, this video clip from CNN is right out of some kind of shaky-cam horror film). Bieber reportedly left the station late Wednesday night, and is set to appear in court on March 10.

While Bieber was inside the station, his rep sent CNN the following statement: “The Toronto Police Service requested that Justin Bieber appear in Toronto today to face an allegation of assault relating to an incident on December 29, 2013. We anticipate that this matter will be treated as a summary offense, the equivalent of a misdemeanor in the United States. Our position is that Mr. Bieber is innocent. As the matter is now before the court, it would be inappropriate to address the specifics of either the allegation or of our defense at this time.”

The arrest came one hour after Bieber debuted his latest music video, for a song titled “Confident.”